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Cambodia's Trials: Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice and National Recovery

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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More than four decades have passed since the end of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia in 1979. Even so, the country is still coming to terms with the destruction wrought in the decade when the Khmer Rouge won and held power and, thereafter, during their guerrilla resistance to the new regime in Phnom Penh until 1998. The Khmer Rouge Tribunal (or Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia, ECCC), established in 2006 to bring the Khmer Rouge leadership to justice, has long been the focus of scholarly attention in Cambodia’s recovery. In many ways a product of the 1990s, a time when liberal democracy appeared to be on the rise both in Cambodia and internationally, the ECCC was imagined as a ‘Transitional Justice’ initiative – while delivering justice it should also ease the transition to liberal democracy. This compelling study argues that approach is dated. The political circumstances in which the ECCC was born have changed profoundly, both globally and locally. No longer can Cambodia’s current situation be analysed solely in terms of transitional justice narratives or the work of the ECCC. Other ways in which Cambodians have come to terms with their past, and built new lives, must also be considered. Decentring the ECCC in the scholarly narrative of Cambodia’s recovery, the volume’s authors offer fascinating new insights into the Khmer Rouge period and more recent years of social, cultural and political change in Cambodia.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt0 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNIAS Studies in Asian Topics
Antal sidor400
FörlagNIAS Press
ISBN9788776943318

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Robin Biddulph is an associate professor in human geography at the University of Gothenburg. He is mainly interested in the relationships between land tenure and social justice, which he has explored in Cambodia, Tanzania and Sweden. Earlier, he lived in Cambodia where he worked as a lecturer, conducted humanitarian mine-clearance and was a policy researcher. Alexandra Kent is an associate professor in social anthropology at the University of Gothenburg. She has explored the relationship between religion, politics, gender, healing and security in India, Malaysia and Cambodia, her most recent research being on Cambodians’ understandings of justice in the aftermath of conflict.

PrefaceContributorsIntroduction: Beyond Transitional Justice: Cambodians' Continuing Struggles for Truth in a Troubled WorldSection 1: Context1. 'Egregious Dysfunctions': Transitional Justice in Cambodia's Limited Access Order2. Khmers Rouges and Khmer Rights3. The Rhetoric and Language of Justice at the ECCC4. Narratives of Complex Political Victims: Constructing Victimhood and Negotiating 'Khmer Rouge' Identity in Post-Conflict CambodiaSection 2: Interactions5. Upholding the Right to Effective Legal Representation in Cambodia: Lessons Learned from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia6. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Failed Justice or Catalyst for Transformation?7. Outsourcing Outreach: "Counter-Translation" of Outreach Activities at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia8. Violent Ruptures, Collective Memory and the Temporal Borders of the ECCC in a Cambodian VillageSection 3: Beyond9. Ecocide in the Shadow of Transitional Justice: Genocidal Priming and the March of Modernity10. Beyond Transition: Local Experiences of Change in the Forty Years Since the Fall of Democratic Kampuchea11. The Dead, Haunting, and Reordering Cambodian Society After the Khmer Rouge12. From Khmer Rouge Soldier to Guardian Spirit: Memorialization, Transformation, and ReunificationColour IllustrationsIndex